HEAVY SPOILERS BELOW FOR ALL DATA STUFF

TNG Data died in Nemesis. In Season 1 of Picard its said they were able to rebuild his positronic net and that he’s been active inside of a simulation for ages. He’s bored fucking senseless and is the founding basis of a new species of organic androids. He asks Picard to kill him by just turning off the simulation and shutting him down. Picard does so.

In Season 3 of Picard they find one of those organic androids but its Data. He was built seperate from the simulation version. An attempt was made to join Lore and Data into one body which failed on its own. Data eventually fixes the problem himself and ends up as a fully organic android. He’s a real boy now. He was feeling emotions and having gut instincts. Was aging and had no problem with it. Made jokes. Used contractions. Full culmination of his story. I loved it.